People
DigIn is a collaboration of 22 institutions digitizing invertebrate specimens from 19 collections. It takes a network of dedicated faculty, staff, and volunteers to make this happen.
Digitizing Institutions
Regina Wetzer (lead PI) — Curator and Director, Marine Biodiversity Center
Trina Roberts (co-PI) — Associate Vice President for Collections
Elizabeth Ellwood (co-PI) — Research Fellow
Austin Hendy — Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
Kathy Omura — Collections Manager
Adam Wall — Collections Manager
Leslie Harris — Collections Manager
Caroline Haymaker — Collections Manager
Jenessa Wall — Collections Technical Support
Dean Pentcheff — Collections Technical Support
Vijay Barve — Digitization Project Manager
Victoria Westover — Digitizing Specialist
Kamal Hamdan — Director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education
Charlene McCord — Assistant Professor
Kathryn Theiss — Assistant Professor
Paul Callomon (PI) — Invertebrate Collections Manager
Gary Rosenberg — Invertebrate Curator
Estefanía Rodríguez (PI) — Curator of Marine Invertebrates
Christine Johnson (co-PI) — Curatorial Associate
Lily Berniker — Museum Specialist at AMNH
Nusrat Noor — Collection Manager, Marine and Aquatic Invertebrates and Project Lead
Jon Armbruster — Director and Curator of Fishes
Holly Bolick (PI) — Invertebrates
Ken Hayes (co-PI) — Invertebrates
Christina Piotrowski (PI) — Institute for Biodiversity Science & Sustainability, Invertebrate Zoology
Elizabeth Kools — Collections Staff
Johanna Loacker — Collections Staff
Rüdiger Bieler — Curator
Kalina Griffin-Jakymec — Collections Manager
Petra Sierwald — Curator
Paul Larson (PI) — Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Corinne Fuchs — Collections Staff
Gonzalo Giribet (PI) — Museum of Comparative Zoology
Adam Baldinger (co-PI) — Museum of Comparative Zoology
Megan McCuller (PI) — Collections Manager, Non-Molluscan Invertebrates
Daniel Geiger (PI) — Invertebrates
Vanessa Delnavaz — Collections Manager
Greg Rouse (PI) — Benthic Invertebrates Collection
Mark Ohman (PI) — Pelagic Invertebrates Collection
Linsey Sala — Collections Managers
Charlotte Seid — Collections Managers
Kevin Kocot (PI) — University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Museum of Natural History
Brooke Bogan — Collections Staff
Jingchun Li (PI) — Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Kelly Rose Martin — Collections Staff
Gustav Paulay (PI) — University of Florida, Museum of Natural History
Amanda Bemis — Collections Staff
John Slapcinsky — Collections Staff
Nikki Traylor-Knowles (PI) — Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, Marine Invertebrate Museum
Maria Criales — Collections Staff
Affiliates
Edward Gilbert (Co-PI) — Symbiota Support Hub
Nico Franz (Co-PI) — Director, Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center; Symbiota Support Hub
Katie Pearson — Project and Data Manager, Symbiota Support Hub, iDigBio
Lindsay Walker — Community Manager, Symbiota Support Hub, iDigBio
Nelson Rios — Head of Biodiversity Informatics
William Moser — Collection Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Katie Ahlfeld — Deputy Collection Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Karen Reed — Museum Specialist/Data Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
